by Michael McCarthy
I have just finished watching the funniest series I have ever seen. It’s a Korean sitcom called The Sound of Your Heart. It focuses on an approximately 30 year old webtoon artist who lives with his parents and brother. And it’s just full of absolutely hilarious stuff. I could tell you about some of it but then I think I’d be ruining the jokes. It just gets into all of these ridiculous situations. OK, I’ll tell you one thing. The artist wants to take a week off but he only recently started publishing and his boss says no. So his brother convinces him to be rude to his fans so that there will be a little backlash against him and his boss will insist that he takes a week off. So these women come up to the artist and want his autograph. He’s going to give it to them when his brother and parents remind him to be mean so he throw the woman’s notebook on the ground and says he doesn’t have time, etc, and storms off. Then a kid comes up to him and shows him a webtoon that he’s drawn. It’s really impressive and he’s about to say so when his brother reminds him to be mean. So he tells the kid he’s talentless and that he should do something else. The kid says it’s his dream and he discourages him even more. Well, when the artist gets home, he goes online to see if the backlash has started. Instead, people are praising him. The women took a photo of him when he was storming off and wrote about how cool he was. And the parent of the kid with the webtoon posted about how he gave her son honest advice. I’m sure it doesn’t sound that funny when I’m just telling you about it, but if you watch it I am sure you’ll bust a gut laughing. And that’s just part of one of the stories. The whole thing is completely ridiculous. If Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David wrote a Korean sitcom, this would be it. Much like Seinfeld, it’s kind of about nothing, but it gets into all of these hilarious scenarios.
The show was only one season, which came out in 2016. But in 2018 Netflix launched a reboot that they did two seasons of, the first of which I’m about to start watching now.
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